The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11

for several days, and it its extremity
had eaten a poisonous weed which grew
near the shed. The grandmother,
finding it in convulsions, gave 1t a
heavy dose of whisky. Death resulted
while the chIld's mother lay in Jail on
"A charge of drunkenness"
One death from yellow fever and
one new case were reported on the 9th
in Key West.
"A letter from Santiago de Cuba,
dated the 9th ult., reports nearly 400
cases Of smallpox there. The deaths
from the LIST ult. had numbered 40, all
the victims having been unvaccinated.
The disease had appeared at Guanta-
namO.
Mrs. PEBBLES and her infant were
killed by lightning while asleep. near
Strlngtown, Texas, on the evening of
the 4tb. a terrific thunder storm Wis
tied Cincinnati on the afternoon of the
9Th, ard disabled 400 telephone instru-
ments hy melting tue wires. Much de-
bris was washed from the hillsides into
the highways. Cellars in Newport
were filed with water. The storm at
Oberlln, Ohio, on the 9Th, carried away
nearly all the town bridges, and the
water flooded four of the streets to a
depth of several feet. About fifty
houses and the gas works were flooded.
News has been received IN Quebec
Of a severe earthquake recently felt in
County L'ISlet. Pieces Of rock forty
to fifty feet square were thrown from
the mountains, and some large forest
trees were uprOoted.
"A fire in Pueblo, Colorado, on the
9th, destroyed r. j. Bruner & Co S
WhOlesa'e drug store and T.. D. Ma
than's clothing house. Loss, S60, 600;
insurance, S44 Goo. The Black Dia-
mond Manufacturing Company's
works, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio. were con-
sumed by lightning during a storm on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000. The Diamond
Mills and Elevator at Louisiana, Indi.
ana, were burned ON the morning of
the 9Th. The Eagle Flour Mills of
Z. o. StannaId Il Co, in st. LOUIS,
were damaged by fire on the 9Th to the
extent of $1,000.
Seventeen Apache Indians have
lett their reservation IN Arizona and
''gone on the war path" and it is re-
ported that they have killed a settler.
Four troops OF cavalry left Fort
Huachuca on the afternoon of the 9th
on a scouting expedition under Captain
Lawton. They will probably endeavor
to head off the hostIles in the Pdtago-
mia mountains to prevent their getting
into Mexico.
Thomas Lamb, Judge OF Maverick
county, Texas, on the 9th murdered
his brother Joseph on Mexican soil in a
quarrel about the division of some
property. Troops had 10 be called out
to prevent the Mexicans from lynching
Lamb.
Frederick Hermann. who muir
dered his child, attempted to kill his
wife and cut his own throat, in Pitts
burg, on the 9Th, is now believed to
have a chance of recovery, as well
as his wife. The woman went with
him TO the hospital on the morning OF
the 18th and watched HIM tenderly.
Five ~boys-thrae sons of John
Beck and two Of Paul Hindel-whose
range from nine 70 sixteen years,
were drowned while bathing near Ma
qu0keta, Iowa, on the 9th. Three of
them got off IA sand bar beyond their
and the other two persisted in
-rying to save them.
Lightning struck a house near
Brownsville, Texas, on the morning
1f the 9TH, killing Manuel Portales
md his wife and stunning four others.
Two of the Injured, Eugenio RincOnes
md his wife, were each made blind
the right eye.
BY the fall of a scaffold loaded
with stone, on a new warehouse at
Washington on the It'll, John Clarke,
lged 60 years, was Killed, and six
were injured, two dangerously.
The contractor says the men over
oaded the scaffuld, contrary 70 lis
1t is reported from J%ohnstown,
that all the mountain streams
rave been overlooked, aud great dam.
has been done in portions of Som.
and Cambria counties. Stony
Creek, in Cambria county, was Il rag
ng torrent on the afternoon Of the It'll,
md trees. barns ana OuthOuses were
'Ntptu ONu Tue S-itdiil. Az JOuloIoNu,
he Couemaugh river rose 50 suddenly
hat many people had to fly for their
ives. The abutment Of the Johns
own bridge was washed away, and the
over part of the city was inundated.
\ large number of houses and stores
we're flooded. and in some instances the
occupants took refuge in the upper
tories. A. far as could be learned
here were III lives lost.
The boiler Of a locomotive on the
Baltimore and OHIO Railroad burst on
he morning Of the It'll, in front of the
'assenger station at Chester, Penna.
W. McClne, aged 10 years, WAS
.illed, and ten persons were injured,
ne, named John Murphy, dangerously.
The station building and shedding were
,adly damaged. Two freight trains
on lhe evening OF the 9th, at a
rossing at Shelby, Ohio, and 2j cars
2 engines were wrecked, causing
loss Of SO, 600. Engineer Lyons was
atally injured. 4 milk train going to
Jew York City on the evening of the
Ith, was thrown from the track near
Mount KiscO by running into a team
# oxen, and IL cars were wrecked.
THE MARK ETS.